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Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-01-13

SOME months ago the natives of a
certain district in Australia predicted
tie approach of floods and left their
low-Ning villages for the higher coun-
try. The floods came several weeks
later, and the natives said that their in
formation had been gathered from the
ants, which had built their nests in the
trees, instead of, as usual, on the ground.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-01-13

On the anniversary of the death of
Alphonso XII. of Spain, the Queen
Regent founded an asylum for persons
invaded by hard work, and the lead
ers id Spanish society have subscribed
literally to the fund for its endowment
A good example which should be fol-
lowed everywhere.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-01-13

Mr.. HEWITT recently announced that
il was his purpose, as mayor of New
York. to give the people the kind of ad.
ministration they had been clamoring
for, and Danish politics from the City
Hall for two years to come. The reso-
luton is an excellent one, and it is to
be hoped that he has the courage and
perseverance to carry it out.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-01-13

CorToN has long since ceased to b.
king among the crops of the
country at large, and there is prob
ability that it will soon lose the sceptel
even in the South. Other crops have
proven to be far more profitable, and
they are gradually gaining on cotton in
the contest for supremacy.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-01-13

THE winter carnival at Montreal will
be held from February Z to IL. The
ice castle will inclose an area of four
teen thousand square feet, and be of an
entirely new design.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-01-13
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

PROMPTLY at twelve o'clock on the 18th
the twentieth session of the Nebraska Leg
islature was inaugnrated. In the Senate
| George ID. Mickeljohn, Republican, of Full
| lertOn, was elected President without oppo
| sition. In the House N. w. Harlan, of York
was elected Speaker by vote Of II to q
over Matt Miller, the Democratic candi.
date.
PRIVATE telegram was received al
Washington on the 5th, stating that Secre
tary Lamar was married at ten o'clock on
that morning to Mrs Holt, at Macon, Ga.
THE Nebraska Legislature had q very
quiet day on the 9Th. The organization was
completed and subordinate positions filled.
BorH houses of the Missouri Legislature
met at Jefferson City on the 5th. The
House elected DR.. E. A. Donelan, of Buchan-
an, Democrat, temporary Speaker, and Mr..
Bentley, of st. Louis, was unanimously
elected temporary Chief Clerk. After read
ing the roll of members-elect and swearing
them in the House adjourned In the SEN
ate the only business done was swearing
in the members.
THE socialist element was victorious at
the annual election of district assembly "a,
Knights Of Labor, held at Chicago re-
Gently
PATTI made her first appearance in the
City Of Mexico on the night of the 5th and
was showered with roses.
JUDGE SHEPARD, Of Chicago, recently en-
joined the recorder of Cook County from
making abstracts of titles.
VICTOR TARDE, member of the Old Guard
Of Napoleon l., died short time ago in Me.
dina County, Tex, aged ninety.
The Democratic caucus at Jefferson City
on the 9th renominated Senator COckrell to
be his own successor.
GOVERNOR DAWES, of Nebraska, deliv-
cred his biennial message to the Legis-
lature in joint session on the afternoon of
the 9th. The present indebtedness of the
State is only s45O,OOO
In the Missouri House of Representatives
on the 9th, j. w. Alexander was elected
Speaker. After electing lot of minor off,
GERS the House adjourned. The Senate
elected ID. A. Ball, of Pike, President pro
tenn, and A. T. Coker, of Cape Girardeau,
Secretary. After electing several subor-
dlnate officers, the Senate adjourned with
out waiting for the Governors message.
GENERAL BOULANGER, French Minister of
War, recently ordered 2OO, 600 new melinite
Shells
The Democrats of the Ninth Wisconsin
district recently nominated Dr. Samuel
johnson for the long and Joseph Bardeen
for the short term in Congress, made vacant
by Mr.. Prices death
The funeral services of Horatio Potter,
late Bishop of New York, were held at old
Trinity Church ON the morning of the eth.
Rev. DR.. Dix led the services.
IT was learned on very good authority at
short time ago that the Pres
ident had no intention of calling an extra
session Of Congress.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-01-13

KNIGIT-OF-THE-CUE SLOSSON has been
sued for twenty-five thousand dollars
damages by James +. Fellows, of Chi
cago, the man whom Slosson had arrest
cd for perjury short time ago.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-01-13

SENATOR JONES, of Nevada, is a YER
liable mascot. 1t is reported that
lately in single day he made four mil
lion dollars. This, however,ris not an
everyday occurrence with him.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-01-13

The savings banks of New York State
have s475, 900, 900 on deposit, and a sur
pits above all liabilities of $S5, zoo, 900.
The Massachusetts savings banks have
$29: 100000 in deposits and 1000, 900
surnlus
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-01-13

A PHILADELPHIA paper thinks 1t
curious that with all of our smartness
in this age of ingenuity we have in
vented nothing that can take the slip
pcrincSs out of ice.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-01-13

The reflection of the electric lights at
New Orleans, La, can be plainly seen
at the fifty-one mile point on the Mis-
sissippi river below.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-01-13

TIE Doodle Aldermen of New York
are more enthusiastic in their admira-
ton for the great Anglo-Saxon right of
trial by Jury.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-01-13

SENATOR STANFORD is said to have
spent fully ten thousand dollars in pur-
chasing Christmas presents for the
poor of Washington.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-01-13

TIE iron and steel trade of the United
States in 1886 was active, but it is ex-
pcctcd to be still more active in 1887.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-01-13
CURRENT COMMENT.

IT is announced that Queen Victoria
will give away two thousand titles and
decorations at her jubilee.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-01-13

A YOUNG Italian named Vincenzo,
with mezzo-soprano voice, has gone
to Paris to seek his fortune on the stage.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-01-13
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES,

RECENTLY A. Caruthers, David Porter
and John Thurston started to walk to st
Paul, Mimi, from Coal Mine, twelve mile.
north. Caruthers only arrived alive, thu
other two being frozen to death.
THE coal dealers in New York City re
Gently advanced the price of coal, as the
article was getting scarce in consequence
OF the strike of the coal handlers.
AT the Glendon stone quarries, neal
EastOn. Pa, five chambers, 200 feet Ions
and sixty feet high, were recently filled
with twenty-five and half tons of gian,
powder and exploded by electricity, dis
placing mass of rock estimated at 200 OOl
to SOC, 900 tons.
| REV. FATHER STUMPE, pastor Of ST. AIMS
Church, New York, disappeared short
time ago with a large amount of money
| raised by the church for the purpose OF
erecting new building.
| A DISPATCH from London said that 1t was
row certain that the recent mail robberies
in Belgium were perpetrated by gang OF
skilled Anglo-American thieves.
In the House on the Sth Mr. Cox, of North
Carolina. from the Committee on Civil Ser
vice Reform, reported back the Senate bill
repeating the Tenure of Office act. The
House then went into Committee of the
Whole on the bill consolidating certain
bureaus of the Navy Department. After
some discussion on the bill the committee
rose. The Senate resolution was afterward
passed appointing James p. Angel a men,
Der of the Board of Regents of the Smith
sonian Institute. Mr.. Hiscock, of New
York, introduced bill to reduce internal
taxation by removing the taxes on native
tobacco and Offering bounties to American
sugar producers. Mr.. Springer, of Illinois,
presented an amendment to the Pacific
Railroad Funding bill, and Mr.. Willis, of
Kentucky, reported the River and Harbor
bill and then the House adjourned.
The German ship Elizabeth, from Ham
burg to Baltimore, was recently wrecked
with all her crew on the Virginia coast, near
the Little Island life-saving station, 40
miles south of Cape Henry. Not less than
twenty. seven lives, including five life-sav-
ing men, were lost.
FIRE at New York recently DESTROYED
the five-story brick building and contents
at Nos. $50 and So West Thirticth street.
The first floor was occupied by the owner,
George STEINER, as kindling- wood factory.
and there the fire began. Several firemen
were hurt by falling walls. The estimated
loss is $l25, 900, with some insurance. Cause
unknown.
LARGE fire started early on the morn
ing of the 9th at Lawrence, Kan, and did
damage to the amount Of nearly a quarter
Of million dollars. The waterworks had
Just been completed, but an unfortunate
break rendered them useless.
WHILE shifting engine 81 on the Fits
burgh, Fort Wayne Il Chicago road was
standing recently on siding at Manches-
ter, Allegheny City, train OF coke cars
dashed into it. Engineer John Criddle and
Fireman Fletcher Ague were both caught
n the wreck and terribly crushed.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-05-05
"BETWEEN YOU AND j."

Miss Minerva Van Boston's engagement is
broken,
She's returned to her lover each letter and token,
They have had their last drive and their last
friendly chat;
And the rather remarkable reason why
Is because he would say between you andI;"
And Minerva Van Boston could not endure that.
OF q very old family he was scion,
And the kind of a man it was safe to rely on,
With a character no one would dare to I'M
peach,
And in fact, in every other respect
His habits were perfect, his manners correct;
Yet he did make this terrible error in speech!
Miss Minerva Van Boston had tried hard to break
him,
She had reasoned in vain, ere she vowed to for
sake him,
She had been, as it were, 'twixt the fire and the
hammer.
She had talked to him kindly, firmly, severely,
And to tell the sad truth, she still loved him
dearly;
But dearer by far was her love for her gram.
mar.
And to live with man who was slightly defec-
tive
In the daily use of his pronouns objective
Would have caused Miss Minerva much anguish
and worry.
So with many regrets, and half broken hearted,
These lovers poor things, have forever been
parted
By the shade OF ridiculous old Lindey Murray.
Bessie Chandler in The Brooklyn Magazine.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-05-05

"The craze of countless rich society ladies to
display their charms at the footights has
completely ruined the business for such
women as myself who turn to it as verit-
able means of livelihood.
"The cost of costuming is enormous, the pay
is poor and precarious, but worse that all is
the fact that the genuine female workers of
the stage are powerless in the hands of man.
ayers, who know that those really dependent
upon the profession for maintenance dare not
strike, because there are always hordes of
wealthy, fine ladies eagerly waiting for an
opportunity to act for nothing-if indeed
they do not pay to do so-and find them
selves. There being much less competition
for places behind the counter, have returned
there, as / said to begin with, after losing five
of the best years Of my life on the stage"
CELIA LOGAN.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-05-05
An Erudite Maiden.

Helena Halstead Herrick was an erudite young
maiden,
Who lived in Boston, where, us SAID, mucn
erudition grows.
With a weight of wondrous learning was her
youthful mind o'erladen,
And to her, a bloom meant Botany, and not a
simple rose
She translated Greek and Sanskrit and she did
undo the Persian
Carlyle and Herbert Spencer helped to feed her
hungry brain,
While for trashy, fiighty writers she professed
great aversion,
And turned her Grecian nose aloft with infinite
disdan.
She explained with perfect clearness all her views
on evolution,
And told with modest pride about her first an
cestor'S birth.
His pre-A,!amite and globulite and airy constitu-
tion
When first he formed himself to live upon this
sordid earth.
-Maude Amulet Andrews in Puck.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-05-05
George C. Minis Skull.
Norwich Bulletin.

When George C. Min, the Chicago preach
er, gave up the pulpit to go on the stage,
many of his friends made him presents
Among these was skull whose cheek bones
were abnormally large. Min asked the
donors where they got the CHASTITY relic. he
was told that the skull once held the vicious
brain of a murderer who was Hanged for his
crime; but not one professed to know the
felon's name or the manner in which the
skull was obtained. Mr.. Min has since made
many efforts to discover the name of the
murderer but without success. He uses the
skull when he plays Hamlet.-New York
Sun.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-05-05
CAPT. KlDD'S GOLD.
How 1t Was Bnried on Long IslanS and
How 1t Has Been Sought.
special Correspondence

lSpeClal correspondence
SAG HARBOR, April 11.-Capt. KIDD, the
pirate, did really bury his, or rather other
peoples, money in the old colonial times
few miles from Sag Harbor, my native place,
ON GARDENERS Island. He buried it there in
broad daylight and in very matter of fact
fashion i'll the presence of Lyon Gardiner,
the first owner of the island. He buried
tantalizing amount of gold doubloons, silver
bars and precious stones. Kidd then had din
ner served him at Gardeners house,
and was so pleased at the roast pig
on the board as to present Mrs.
Gardiner with piece of gold cloth which, in
divisions and subdivisions, is held in the
Gardiner family to-day. Kidd then sailed
away to meet an appointment at Execution
Dock, London. Lynn dug up the doubloons
and made them over to the crown. To do
this was an excruciating spasm of honesty. 1t
would have killed many of our people of to-
day. But Gardiner evidently did not know
the valne of money. Not a doubloon stuck
to his fingers Gold was not as glutinous
then as now
However, he was an honest man and the
best they could do for the time. He was
lord, too. His tablet in the old East Hampton
burying ground reads: "Sacred to the memory
of Lyn Gardiner, lord of the Isle of Wight"
the name he gave the island. He came over
with Governor Nichols about 1864 along with
the Nicholses, the Lawrences, the Willetses
and dozen other young cadets, the founders
of as many present old New York English
families.
In my boy hood drove my fathers stage to
Montauk, and in that stage several times car
rled parties who came to dig for Kidd's
treasure. OF course they did not let out
their purpose. But we always knew them by
certain signs. They carried certain queer
and much wrapped up paraphernalia These
were magical instruments, divining rods, ETC.,
either for pointing out the spot Where the
plunder was buried or things to keep off the
possible ghosts, who always were reported
to snake away the pot full of money just as
it was unearthed or being lifted out of the
hole. They always carried guns and pre-
tended to be sportsmen; but we were all born
duck hunters in those days, and could tell
from the way man handled gun whether
he meant business or not.
If Kidd had buried all the money that has
been dug for on the Long Island, New Jersey
and New England coasts as well as on the
banks of the Hudson, within the last 100
years, he would have needed several more
ships tc have brought it hither.
PRENTICE MILFORD.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-05-05
LOVES SACRIFICE.

An old man lived by the silent sea;
with his little daughter alone dwelt he;
The light of his life was the little maid,
And truly his deep love she repaid.
II.
One evening she heard him say
That a seaweed would take his pain away
For he tossed at night sleepless bed,
And this weed would sOothe him TO sleep, he
said.
On one rock alone did this rare weed grow,
Which could only be reached when The tide was
low;
And the green sea foamed around at flood.
".
Soon as the dawning's dusky light
Broke on the darkness of the night,
The little maid was on the beach;
The tide was low, the rock in reach.
v.
She climbed its top and grasped the weed,
With Joy to help her fathers need
But ali her strength could only move
One root-small trophy for her love.
vi.
Forgetful 4 us of self, too late
She stayed; but tide for none will wait,
And silently the sea had come
To claim the maiden for its own
VII.
One startled glance reveals her doom;
She thought of father, love and home
For her no more. The hungry sea
Soon high above the sea will be.
VIII.
the waves uuenched that life Of love-
But darkened here, tits bright above,
And far beyond the sunny skies,
She gathers flowers in Paradise.
IX.
Waiting and sad, her father safe
Within the co ttage garden gate,
For e'er bis love, his life's one light,
Now sadly quenched in darkest night.
No tidings came. AS evening fell,
He sought the beach he knew so well.
He called-no voice in answer came,
But mocking echoes of her name.
XI.
The winds awoke; the angry tide
Swelled on the besch-but still he cried
To her all night, till the Eastern skies
Again aroused earth's miseries.
XII.
The dawn fills up his agony
And with loud heart-broken cry,
He found his darling at his feet
But the little heart had ceased to beat.
XIII.
The salt spray kissed her forehead white;
The seaweed with its colors bright,
Wove her a winding sheet her hair
Lay tangled in its beauty rare.
XIV.
He knelt, and raised her from the sand;
But when he took her little hand,
All, what tale of love he read
The small right hand, now pale and dead
XIV.
Still tightly clasped the charmed root,
OF love, of life. of death, the fruit
Gathered from out the bitter tide,
For this and him his child had died!
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-05-05
IIock Making I'm China.

The Chinese and japanese nations took to
American clocks with great eagerness after
the centennial, and the manufacturers had to
hire natives to paint the dials with Chinese or
japanese characters. The trade suddenly fell
OF, and an investigation revealed as the
cause the fact that the ingenious Chinese had
begun to counterfeit the clocks, and were
turning their product out at prices that the
american makers couldn't touch-Amos j.
Cummings III Pioneer Press
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-05-05

A gentleman owns a fine tract of cedar
land not far from Austin, Tex, and few
days ago he was told that some negroes were
cutting down the timber, so he rode out to
see about it. To his astonishment he found a
wealthy white neighbor, with team and
wagon, hauling off the timber.
"Why am astOnished, Colonel" said the
owner of the land. IL heard that lot of
negroes were stealing my timber, and here l
find you, white man, cutting my timber
You ought to be ashamed of yourself"
"Well, to tell the truth" responded the
other party, 81 hate to steal timber like q
darkey, but these cedar trees make such
bully fence rails that l concluded to drop all
pride of race e"-TeAas Siftings.
A Funny Spectacle.
Omaha Youth-Ah! Dick, been on an er-
rand see
Little Dick-Yes, ma sent me to the store.
"If your sister is at home believe III go
around with you, though suppose oughtn't
TO stay long, as I've been to your house SO
often lately"
Wish you would-such fun. Say, come in
The back door with me and don't step hard"
''Oh, hol Arranging little surprise, ehFr
Yes, Jou'll just laugh to kill yourself when
yea see the way Sis and that chum of yours
ocS on when they think no ones lookin'." ~
lmaha World.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-05-05
sheen sheariur in Montana.

The Montana Wool Grower estimates that
there will be nearly 1000, 900 sheep sheared in
that territory this year, producing at least
5000, 900 pounds of WOOL, 100000 pounds
more than the product Of 1856
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-05-05
Persons desirous of

Persons desirous of
going to the Double
Hump Back mountains
for an outing cannot do
better than to go via
the justly celebrated B
line route. This road
lies through a most
picturesque region, and
the scenery is unsur-
passed. The view OBJ
tanned from the window
one of the b lines
smooth running cars
makes a natural pano-
roma which long fingers
in the memory OF the
beholder.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-05-05

Last night, owing to
the negligence Of the
employees Of the Rough
and Ready railroad, a
train on the Bugle City
branch ran into an open
switch near Smiths
Corners. The whole
train was derailed and
one car rolled down a
400 foot embankment.
AS the passengers were
all habitual travellers on
this road, they had been
toughened to such treat
ment and nobody was
killed.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-05-05
Before and After the Interstate Law.
OLD STYLE. NEW STYLE.
OLD STYLE.


We are panied to
learn that the genial
Col. Jones, superinten-
dent of the Bungtown
and Hooperville rail-
road, is confined to his
house by a painful at
tack of sciatic tooth
ache. His many friends
will hope that his i'll
ness will be of short
duration.
A slight mishap oc-
Cured last night on the
Bugle city branch of
the Rough and Ready
railroad, near Smiths
Corners, which caused
half an hours delay.
The great vigilance and
care exercised upon this
public spirited and well
managed railroad pre-
vented what might have
been a lamentable catas-
trophe.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-05-05

Mr.. John Jones, su-
perintendent of the B.
and II. railroad, is con-
fined to his house by
illness.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-05-05

See advertisement of
the B line route to the
Double Hump Back
mountains.
Norwich Bulletin.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-05-05

An old man lived by the silent sea;
With his little daughter alone dwelt he;
The light of his life was the little maid,
And truly his deep love she repaid.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-05-05

One evening she heard him say
That a seaweed would take his pain away;
For he tossed at night on sleepless bed,
And this weed would soothe him to sleep, he
said
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-11-23

THE latest estimate of the wealth of
the United Kingdom is $43, 100000
600, which is an average of about ST.
245 for each man, woman and child in
that country. In aggregate wealth
the United States is now far in ad-
vance of any other nation in the
world, although in it's per capita pos
sessions it is still behind Great Britain
and Ireland. The relative gain of the
two nations in the past ten years,
however, makes it probable that even
in wealth per inhabitant the United
States will lead the world fifteen or
twenty years hence. OF course, prop
erty is much more widely distributed
in the United States than in Great
Britain, and the average holdings of
what are technically called the middle
and lower classes are far greater here
than thAr0